School Land Funds Flow

DIGEST

December 5, 1991|Staff reports

The wait is over. The Palm Beach County School District was supposed to start receiving dollars to buy land for new schools in 1989, when the county started collectings fees from builders of new homes.

The impact fees were put in limbo while the state Supreme Court deliberated whether to allow impact fees to continue. In February, it ruled that they are legal.

Now the district has received $3.7 million in fees and used it to offset the cost of buying land for four schools: Timber Trace Elementary in Palm Beach Gardens; a proposed elementary on Haverhill Road in West Palm Beach; Panther Run Elementary in Wellington; and the Carver Middle School replacement on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.